Solomon Islander Patterson Sikua vividly remembers the day that The Tensions came to his community. He was a Grade Six student in Kollina, a village in the remote Weathercoast region on the south side...

Charles Maeuta, 31 and the only one of his siblings still single, is worried about the future. He knows that on the Solomon Islands, someone like him – unemployed, a vocational school dropout – is una...

Bernadette Tahiseu lives with her husband and nine children, along with four infant grandchildren, in a single thatched hut with walls made of tarpaulin and dried palm leaves. At 43, she and her husba...

Andrew Fioga remembers the good times as well as the bad in his homeland of the Solomon Islands. Born on the island of Guadalcanal in 1965 to ethnic Malaitan parents, he describes an earlier life of “...

Suva, Fiji, May 24, 2016 – The Lal family live in Nakasi, a town about 30 minutes’ drive from of Suva, capital of Fiji. While many Fijians do not consider this a ‘rural’ area, they are a kilometer (0....

Temotu, Solomon Islands, May 13, 2016 – Francis Nadia was busy, repairing the village school when the earth began to shake in a way the 41-year-old had never felt in his life. “We knew something bad w...

WASHINGTON, April 21 – East Asia and Pacific has the world’s largest and fastest-growing internet user base, but the region also has gaps in access between higher- and lower-income countries, a panel ...

Public procurement in the Pacific Islands faces many challenges, especially remoteness and small markets. As extremely small economies – the combined regional procurement spending is only $1.1 billion...

Nuku'alofa, Tonga – At least once a week, Fakamalinga Tonga takes her four-year old son, Falefehi, to play-based activities organized by her community. These play groups have only been running for les...

Honiara, Solomon Islands – It’s after 7am as Alison Lenga Ila and her five-year-old son Junior join the morning rush of school children and office workers. The 28-year-old works as an office cleaner, ...

East Asia is graying quickly, but to people like 60-year-old Toi in Thailand and 58-year-old Junghye Sohn in Korea, getting older doesn’t necessarily mean it is time to slow down. They are worried abo...